present work: these are the Cyathea sinuata here represented, 
and the more singular, but much less local [ymenostuchys Zeyla- 
nica of Dr, Wallich. 
The Cyathea is not only peculiar to Ceylon, but is very rare, 
and we only know of its being gathered by our friends above 
mentioned. It is, moreover, the only species of the extensive 
genus which has simple or undivided fronds; and it is perhaps 
among the smallest, and certainly the most elegant of the tribe. 
It has quite an arborescent character, but bears about the same 
proportion to the gigantic species of the same genus, that the 
pigmy-deer of Ceylon does to the red-deer of our country. The 
two Ceylonese Ferns now mentioned were packed in a very long, 
narrow, vertical glazed case, made for the purpose, and com- 
mitted to the care of Dr. Thomas Thomson, as far as Malta, then 
to that of Mr. Bury. The two plants reached us in the most 
perfect state of health and of fructification. The Hymenostachys, 
being of the Opdioglossum family, we are less sanguine of culti- 
vating with success than we are the Cyathea: we shall soon 
present a figure of that to our subscribers. 
Pirate 21. Fig. 1. Much reduced figure of Cyathea (Notocarpia) sinuata, 
Hook. and Grev. 2. Single fertile frond,—natural size. 3. Portion of a frond, 
with sori, showing the venation and the position of the sori on the veins,—mag- 
nified. 4, 5, 6. Sori and involucres in different stages of maturity,—more 
magnified. 
